PASSENGER PIGEON, 
25 ' 
Ectopistes inigraiorius, B. O. U. List Bnt. B. P- (1883), 
Saunders, ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. m. p. 28 (1883); id- Man. 
Brit. B. p. 474, note (1889); Salvad. Cat. B. Bnt. Mus. xxi. 
p. 369 (1893). 
Adult Male.— General colour slaty-grey on the mantle, wing- 
coverts, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; scapulars 
brown, with black marks caused by longitudinal patches near 
the base of the outer web, a few of the adjacent median and 
greater coverts similarly marked ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 
and quills black, the primaries externally margined with whity- 
brown, the inner ones more broadly with white near the base 
of the outer web ; centre tail-feathers slaty-black, the remainder 
grey with more or less white along the inner web of all but 
the outside feathers, which are white on the outer web and grey 
on the inner one; all but the centre feathers with a patch of 
cinnamon near the base of the inner web ; head and hind-ncck, 
sides of face, and throat slaty-blue, paler on the latter, the sides 
of the neck metallic reddish lilac, extending round the hind- 
neck and on to the upper mantle, these parts bemg shot with 
coppery bronze ; under surface of body, Irom the middle of 
the throat downwards, rich vinous cinnamon, paler on the 
breast, the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts white; sides 
of body and axillaries slaty-grey, the under wing-coyerts djarker 
slate colour, and those near the edge of the wing slaty-blackish , 
quill lining dark ashy. Total length, 16-2 inches; culmen, 
07 ; wing, 8-45 ; tail, 7'85 ; tarsus, i 2. 
Adult Female.— In the British Museum are specimens, sexed 
as females, which do not differ from the males in colour. 
Salvador! and Ridgway, however, describe the hen birds as 
having a brownish head and whitish throat. According to the 
latter the chest and breast are greyish brown or drab, gradually 
chanMng to pale brownish-grey on the sides ; the belly and 
under tail-coverts white. Total length, 14-5 inches ; wmg, 7 8. 
young.— Browner than the adults and marked with white 
fringes to the feathers of the upper surface, the quills edged 
with light rufous. The throat and abdomen white; lower 
throat, fore-neck, and chest brown, with whitish fringes to the 
feathers. 
